Black Twitter
The fact that black Twitter is a society in which only black people are members alone creates a racial separation from the rest of Twitter. Imagine if there was a thing called “White Twitter” or “Asian Twitter”. This is something society would fear, and Twitter and social media are promoting it.
These groups on social media that are mainly created based on racial differences, have the potential to affect the real life. Twitter is very popular among today’s society, particularly today's youth, and because of that, Twitter leaves a huge mark on the real life. In a way these groups would promote racism and conflicts, which is what society is working to combat. For example, in high schools, self-imposed racial separation is very obvious. I am not proposing that this is only because of black twitter or any other similar online society, but the defined groups on social media definitely contribute to the problem. When black students only hang out with other black students and white students surround themselves with other white students, two different societies are created with different ways of thinking and opinions. Because our opinions will be different in most cases, there will be conflicts in real life just like the ones on twitter. By making two different communities both online and in person, we don’t hear each other’s sides of the story or opinions, which is crucial in understanding a problem, for example the modern racial problem, and fixing it.
Ramsey, Donovan X. "The Truth About Black Twitter." Last modified April 10, 2015. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/04/the-truth-about-black-twitter/390120/.